Despite the cheesy decor or cartoony tomatoes around the walls, the dishes served here are very good. To me, the hardest part about cooking is getting the right aroma into the food—that second wind of taste and smell.

Tomato Palace does a good job of packing in aroma, and I would recommend it for a nice lunch place also. The water’s always full with a pitcher of water that they leave at your table. The only downside is that their food doesn’t make for very good leftovers.

We went again last night and I am sad to say I wasn’t as impressed last night. The bread and garlic knots were still very good along with the service and atmosphere. However, our food wasn’t as good.

I ordered one of the specials called Grilled Asparagus Pasta ($14.95) which on paper sounded great with chicken, garlic, smoked tomatoes, grilled asparagus, grilled red onions with penne pasta and white wine sauce and drizzled with a balsamic vinegar sauce. However when I got it and took my first few bites I was note impressed. Overall, it was very flavorless (both the sauce and the chicken especially). I asked for more of the balsamic vinegar sauce which helped some. However, the smoked tomatoes and grilled red onions were very flavorful but they got lost when you mixed it all together. The asparagus was not the best also. Some of it was good but most of mine was very thick and stalky (if its to thick is not good at all).

My husband got the Chicken Rigatoni and was also disappointed- he wished he had order his staple of Chicken Parm. He ate less then myself.

This experience makes me skeptical about going back.

My Husband and I went here after catching a movie across the street last night.
As soon
as you walk in you are overcome with the wonderful and robust smells of their
food! My
mouth started to water as soon as I came in the turn style door! he Tomato
Palace serves
traditional Italian pastas and pizzas.

The walls have these great murals of traditional Italian type vegetables in a
cartoon manor
that is very fun and whimsical. They bring each table a pewter pitcher of water
that is
kept at the table. Interesting to find out you can order off the Clyde’s menu
from next
door (owned by the same people).

The start you of with a nice selection of Italian bread and this other garlic
bread that is tied
in knots- both were to die for. We shared an appetizer of the grilled bruchetta
that was
so wonderful (except the mozzarella was a bit mild for us and didn’t have much
flavor-
the rest of it was perfect).

I had the February special which was Braised Braciola (about $14)- stuffed with
egg, sun
dried tomatoes, onions, spinach and a few other things served with a cacciatore
sauce, sautéed green beans and mashed potatoes. It was very good. Besides my
husbands
braciola it was the best I have ever had.

My husband had the Chicken Parmigiana. The chicken was very moist and the
coating was
perfect.

This place sits right on the lake- however we couldn’t see it because we didn’t
eat till
around 8:30 p.m. We both agreed it was very good and average price and would
head
back again. They had some great sounding desserts but we were both too full.